{"id":816136,"date":"2026-08-17T03:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T03:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/816136\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T03:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T03:04:10","slug":"uss-lincoln-leaders-making-mental-health-a-priority-during-long-deployment-us-commander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/816136\/","title":{"rendered":"USS Lincoln leaders making mental health \u2018a priority\u2019 during long deployment: US commander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A top <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/us-military?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">US military<\/a> commander said mental health was a valid concern after meeting crew deployed on the USS Abraham Lincoln, where conditions aboard the aircraft carrier have led to complaints during its long deployment in the Iran war.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Admiral Brad Cooper\u2019s visit to the carrier in the Arabian Sea followed outrage among family members about reports of food shortages, water contamination, mouldy showers and long shifts in wartime aboard the vessel, which has been deployed without a port call for more than 200 days.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Some family members have said the situation has deteriorated so badly that some sailors have attempted to throw themselves overboard.<\/p>\n<p>The Lincoln \u201ccurrently has among the lowest number of cases related to mental health\u201d among the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/us-navy?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">US Navy<\/a>\u2019s 11 active aircraft carriers, Cooper said in a social media statement. \u201cThis doesn\u2019t mean that all is perfect\u201d and \u201cservice at sea for long periods isn\u2019t for everyone\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Cooper called his visit \u201cawe-inspiring\u201d and hailed the crew\u2019s \u201cresilience\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An F\/A-18E Super Hornet launches from the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on July 31. Photo: US Navy\/AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/c6ff0bb9-7be7-47e6-9abf-694eb5517587_46127a8d.jpg\" title=\"An F\/A-18E Super Hornet launches from the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on July 31. Photo: US Navy\/AFP\"\/>An F\/A-18E Super Hornet launches from the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on July 31. Photo: US Navy\/AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI\u2019ve long believed that mental health is another aspect of individual health and requires our attention just like physical health and spiritual health,\u201d he said in his statement after visiting the carrier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A top US military commander said mental health was a valid concern after meeting crew deployed on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,121170,12,228242,259,3,1572,21,19,22,20,25,57442,30547,24,219710],"class_list":["post-816136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-brad-cooper","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran-war","tag-mental-health","tag-news","tag-pete-hegseth","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-military","tag-us-navy","tag-usa","tag-uss-abraham-lincoln"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}